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"I've run into a very similar problem, actually - it seems that OSX doesn't stat non-local directories unless there's user activity in the window. I was using a homemade photobooth script (on an ubuntu machine) and Xee on the OSX machine for display...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ikkyu2
4 days ago
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"Okay, let's see. Got married in July, and we were going for essentially the same thing. We hate everything that's typically associated with weddings. A quick list of things we did to make out wedding more palatable.
For the flowers - we simply..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by ifjuly, chara
Last month
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I've got a bunch of good mixes just waiting to be made.
favorited 24 times, recently by klausness, owhydididoit, SlyBevel, m0nm0n, pompomtom, Vavuzi, gemmy, jermsplan, Heatwole, sascha, whir, sperose, roll truck roll, blithely, Mamapotomus, Life at Boulton Wynfevers, ShawnString, MaryDellamorte, NikitaNikita, malapropist, betty botter, Planet F, fire&wings, Plutor
Last month
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"Uh, what? That's not possible. A#=B♭, all the time. They are the same note, period.
Not true. Well, on a piano, maybe. On a stringed, unfretted instrument however, how a note gets played has a lot to do with where it is in the movement of the..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by eritain, that girl
2 months ago
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""When the Sun Hits Me," by The Halo Bit (fronted by Alex Kemp, of Small Factory).
Which reminds me, that's one of the few albums that I don't yet have digitally.
"So Quiet," by Beekeeper (Karla from Ida and her brother)...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by nimsey lou
2 months ago
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"Yeah, I get what you're saying - it's been a while since I couldn't tell by the waveform, but I can see how it would be frustrating. Personally, I use a similar method to gjc - basically, I always have my left pinky above shift, to extend/shrink..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by snsranch
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Alright, so I'm going to set some dates:
April 14th - May 5th - Signup period!
May 5th - May 26th - Make your mixes!
May 26th - June 2nd - Send your mixes!
I think that's a fairly reasonable timeline.
Also, a note about the theme swapsets..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by dubold, roll truck roll
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Alright - any interested parties should send an email to mefiswap[at](my username without the spaces).com. Alternatively, an email to the account listed in my profile with the subject "mefiswap2008" should do nicely. Please include your..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by fire&wings
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"While the typical blog is written by one person wearing sweatpants reclaimed from the hamper, Metafilter is written by some 60,000 people wearing sweatpants reclaimed from the hamper.
Some of us pile our clothes on the floor, thank you very much...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by quin
5 months ago
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"You know you can replace the seats, right? And that it's really easy?
Just find a you-pull-it, drop $50 on two new seats (cloth, this time), and swap them out. Keep the old ones in your garage, or sell them, or do whatever you want with them...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by limeonaire
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Used to be, in the world of audio recording, it was considered poor form to gasp for air into the microphone, and engineers, with pained looks on their faces, would "duck" the really egregious inhalations. Then came Tori Amos, and they..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Mamapotomus, Devils Rancher
5 months ago
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"My old Erg workout plan -
A quick warmup, emulating the in-boat warmup we did. Maybe 2 minutes, total.
Quick arms-only strokes
Arms and Back
Arms back, and just barely pop the knees
3/4 strokes
Full strokes
A good 2K - pull maybe 2-3..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by lilithim
5 months ago
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"Personally, I'd go a little bit further, and do something like this - rather than building a computer into the old UPS, just run a pass-through electrical, and hide the money in there. I'd guess that it's much less likely to get stolen than a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by GPF, limeonaire
6 months ago
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"Yeah, totally possible. Random sounds like white noise, applause, rain, etc, are really easy to edit seamlessly because of their randomness. So here's how I'd do it -
Make like 8-10 samples of white noise, each between maybe 30 and 60s long...." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by scrm, waxbanks, regicide is good for you, white light
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
""My sister called me today and said she's always turned off the dog show on TV because she's tired of all those poodles winning,"
Amen. Someday the Sighthounds will get their due. SOMEDAY...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by winna, LeeJay
6 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Anybody else coming over to MeTa to leave snarky, useless comments, because they know it's the only place that shit won't get deleted?
I'd be all over this if I were in town, but sadly, I'm visiting my parents in the Rust Belt. By the time..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MLIS
6 months ago
MeFi comment:
"It would only be about 15 minutes before I made a complete ass of myself by peeing in a non-functioning toilet.
And then maybe 2 days before I did it again. Those little apartments they set up are just so damn convincing!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by malocchio
8 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Last comment, I swear. What the hell does this mean?
My first guess would be, "Fat dudes, lady cops," which I think describes certain parts of our fair state very well (I'm looking at you, western Maryland).
I don't speak latin,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by RobotHeart, Greg Nog, loiseau
8 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I'm sorry. You must have started a new thread by mistake.
I think what you wanted was the complaining thread." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by junkbox
9 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I like it here.
Also, I generally am down with UK English spelling, but I am just never going to read "whinging" and think anything but "win-jing...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by zebra3
9 months ago
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"Rachel's are awesome. I suggested them in a totally different thread a few days back. They're not classical exactly, but they're certainly a chamber-type group...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by safetyfork
9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"My wife, who is tuned in to immigration issues in the DC area, played a few of these for me this past week - they're frustratingly infuriating to watch.
I wish that it was feasible for the latino community (legal or not, because it's just as..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by papafrita, willie11, Avenger, longdaysjourney
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"You could make the exact same argument for the preservation of slavery. Illegal immigration keeps prices depressed because it provides a dark sector in which employers can safely circumvent every labor law.
No, no. You've completely missed my..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by DevilsAdvocate, willie11
10 months ago
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"I'll chime in here and say that I don't have any problems with Firefox (running adblock +), and I'm running a slightly underpowered G4 ibook.
I think I'd go a step further than mphuie, and say that something is borked with your OSX install -..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by verb, bluishorange
10 months ago
MeTa comment:
"The Bush administration is a full-scale disaster and yet Bush still gets 30-35% approval in polls. WTF, people? Is a third of the US douchetarded?
No, it's more like 50%. The bottom 15% or so are just so dumb they can't even answer the poll..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Ambrosia Voyeur
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Gah. A lot of that looks like the result of poor mastering, i.e., the Loudness Wars (Wiki).
Actually, no. Amazingly, The Loudness Wars (TM) aren't the answer to everything audio-related
While I'm sure that the "Instrumental Kicker"..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by MythMaker
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I like how he conveniently ignores the most recent Cat Power album. Because, you know, that album has no soul at all, and owes nothing to predominantly black music from the early 60's.
In a world where Will Oldham can be the fucking hypeman in a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bardic
10 months ago
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"No. Get a greyhound instead. You'll love it. I promise. Far too many of them get killed every year, and HOLYJESUSARETHEYCUTE. The benefits (in my mind) - they're already house trained. They're crate trained. They're socialized. Did I mention..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ceri richard
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Yeah, Clear Channel sucks and all, and I hate to be within leagues of supporting Rush Limbaugh, but well... I think Mark Mays is making the right decision here. That's not to say that he's made the right decisions in the past, nor that he's making..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kableh
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"But what I meant is that, like many an atheist, people who get very involved in something like the SHARP movement can lose all sense of proportion and end up flyering Boyd Rice shows when they ought to be fighting poverty in black neighborhoods...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by malaprohibita
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"This is the kind of crap that undermines any argument I could possibly make that the left *doesn't* actually want a nanny-state. It's a sad world when the left is becoming (and gladly, I might add) the caricature that the right has used to describe..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by brandz
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Three weeks ago, I was told that was a 30GB, $249 iPod. I feel cheated.
Seriously, had the newer version not come out, would you feel cheated? Did you feel, when you bought it, that you paid the right price for it? How long would have had to..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Llama-Lime, Blazecock Pileon
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Being "less profitable" is only bad if that's the only metric you are applying.
Unless the metric you're applying is, you know, "Staying in business, and continuing to provide your employees with a livelihood." And then being..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mckenney
Last year
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"It's your room, man. Fix your room, first. Always.
But first -
I'm confused, here. When you say that albums recorded before 1970 don't sound that great, you're clearly using a different metric than many audio professionals - albums before..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by pinto, Huw, Fat Charlie the Archangel
Last year
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"Friday nights and sunday nights are the worst. It's taken me almost 4 hours to make the 2 hour DC-Philly trip. That toll just north of the bridge is horrible, I almost always skip it. During those times I haven't, I've tracked the traffic, and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by brownbeards
Last year
MeFi comment:
"Oh man. I truly hope he loses everything. The house, his NFL pension, any chance at a future career in anything that isn't related to a MLM scheme. People who wantonly kill animals are among the worst kind of people, and we should absolutely..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by babybuns
Last year
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"Start reading Strobist. As (I'm assuming) a fairly experienced photographer, you should be able to pick up a lot in a very short period of time. His emphasis is on the practical, and between the archives of the site and the flickr discussion page,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by andihazelwood
Last year
MeTa comment:
"Damn, that's fun. Expect to see an uptick in flaggings in the near future.
not that I flagged every comment on this page or anything. fun!" [
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favorited 2 times, recently by JaredSeth, arto
Last year
